Last year we caught up with singer-songwriter Nia Andrews, and at that time she had completed penning a few tracks on Mark de Clive-Lowe’s critically-acclaimed album, Renegades. However, we knew Nia was at work on her own music project and we are happy to annouce its arrival!
Nia started her career in the music scene as an internationally touring background singer with heavy-hitters such as Janelle Monae, Lauryn Hill, and Common. She has penned vocals for underground phenoms including Blu, Joi Starr and Shafiq Husayn. Now with her debut EP, COLOURS, American singer/songwriter Nia Andrews is ready to take center stage.
From having graced the microphone behind Mary J. Blige or Bruno Mars at the Grammys, to leaving her raw emotion on the mic every month at a speakeasy in Venice or a smoky dive in New York (at the critically- acclaimed live-music event, CHURCH, by founder Mark de Clive-Lowe where Andrews is resident), the Los Angeles native heralds the many colors of her journey on her four-song debut.
Collaborating with Golden Globe nominated songwriter Andrea Remanda and producer Deron Johnson, Colours emerged from a sequence of writing sessions between this dynamic trio of very different writers. Together they have created an emotive, unified sound. An avid fan of Joni Mitchell’s lyricism and the arrangements of Charles Stepney, Andrews’ voice divulges her soul, jazz and folk roots, balanced with the lyrical ingenuity of the greats she reveres.
It’s a unique palette of both power and vulnerability; Colours transports the listener with the dreamy world that it paints.
Track Listing:
1. Colours
2. Made in America
3. Notes on a History
4. The Lovers
+ Digital Booklet
Available now via Bandcamp, iTunes and digital outlets worldwide.